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Suggested Further Reading The number of studies of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein has increased dramatically in recent years. The selection I have made below includes works which should prove helpful both to newcomers to Mary Shelley and to those who want to explore in more depth the relations between her novel, the history out of which it emerged, and the issues it raises about the complex politics of human desire and action in 'modern times'. A good deal of literary criticism is now concerned to challenge our assumptions about gender and power relations in literature and society, and, as a result, some refreshingly progressive readings of English literature have emerged. Among the writings cited below, I have been especially stimulated by the essays of O'Flinn, Gilbert and Gubar, Moers, Sterrenburg and Veeder. That said, David Musselwhite's chapter on Frankenstein in his book on the nineteenth-century English novel is by far the best analysis of Mary Shelley's story I have read to date. All the references given are listed in date order of the edition I have consulted. Biography Richard Church, Mary Shelley, Howe, London, 1928. R. Glynn Grylls, Mary Shelley: A Biography, Oxford University Press, 1938. Muriel Spark, Child of Light, Tower Bridge Publications, London, 1951. Elizabeth Nitchie, Mary Shelley: Author of Frankenstein, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 1953. William A. Walling, Mary Shelley, Twayue, New York, 1972. Richard Holmes, Shelley: the Pursuit, Quartet Books, London, 1976. Jane Dunn, Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelley, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1978. Betty T. Bennet (ed.). The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Johns Hopklns University Press, Baltimore, 1980, 1983. Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert (eds.), The Journals of Mary Shelley, Oxford University Press, 1987. Books and Essays About Frankenstein Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'On "Frankenstein"', The Athenaeum, 10 November, 1832, p. 730. Milton Millhauser, 'The Noble Savage in Frankenstein', Notes and Queries, 190, 1946. pp. 248-50. M. A. Goldberg, 'Moral and Myth in Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein', Keats-Shelly Journal, 8, 1959, pp. 27-38. Burton R. Pollin, 'Philosophical and Literary Sources of Frankenstein', Comparative Literature, 2, vol, xvii, Spring, 1965, pp. 97-108. Harold Bloom, ' Frankenstein, or the New Prometheus', Partisan Review, 32, 1965, pp. 611- 18. P. D. Fleck, 'Mary Shelley's Notes to Shelley's Poems and Frankenstein', Studies in Romanticism, 6, 1967, pp. 226-54. Masao Miyoshi, The Divided Self: A Perspective on the Literature of the Victorians, New York University Press, 1969, pp. 79-89. Robert M. Philmus, 'Frankenstein: or, Faust's Promethean Rebellion Against Nature', in Into the Unknown: The Evolution of Science Fiction from Francis Godwin to H. G. Wells, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1970, pp. 82-90. Robert Kiely, 'Frankenstein', in The Romantic Novel In England, Harvard University Press, 1972, pp. 155-73. Christopher Small, Ariel Like a Harpy: Shelley, Mary, and Frankenstein, Gollancz, London, 1972. Samuel Holmes Vasbinder, Scientific Attitudes in Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1976. Gay Clifford, 'Caleb Williams and Frankenstein: First-Person 'Narratives and "Things as They Are"', Genre, 10, Winter, 1977, pp. 601-17. Sylvia Bowerbank, 'The Social Order vs. the Wretch: Mary Shelley's Contradictory- Mindedness In Frankenstein', English Literary History, vol. 46, no. 3, 1979, pp. 418-31. David Ketterer, Frankenstein's Creation: The Book, the Monster, and Human Reality, ELS Monograph Series, no. 16, University of Victoria, British Colombia. 1979. Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1979. Katherine R. Powers, The Influence of William Godwin on the Novels of Mary Shelly, Arno Press, New York, 1980. Rosemary Jackson, Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion, Methuen, London, 1981, pp. 99- 104. George Levine and U. C. Knoepflmacher (eds;), The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelly's Novel, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1982. Lee Sterrenburg, 'Mary Shelley's Monster: Politics and Psyche in Frankenstein', in Levine and Knoepflmacher, op. cit., pp. 143-71. Paul O'Flinn, 'Production and Reproduction: The Case or Frankenstein', Literature and History, Autumn, 1983, pp. 194-213. Franco Moretti, 'Dialectic of Fear', in Signs Taken as Wonders, Verso Editions, London, 1983, pp. 83-108. Paul Cantor, 'The Nightmare of Romantic Idealism', in Creature and Creator: Myth-making and English Romanticism, Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp. 103-32. Mary L. Poovey, '''My Hideous Progeny": The Lady and the Monster', in The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austin. University of Chicago Press, 1984. Richard Freeborn, 'Frankenstein's Last Journey', Oxford Slavonic Papers, New Series, vol. xviii, 1985, pp. 102-19. Lester D. Friedman, 'Sporting with Life: Frankenstein and the Responsibility of Medical Research', Medical Heritage, vol. 1, no. 3, May/June, 1985, pp. 181-5. William Veeder, Mary Shelley & Frankenstein; The Fate of Androgyny, University of Chicago Press, 1986. Ellen Moers, 'Female Gothic', in Levine and Knoepflmacher, op. cit., pp. 77-87. David E. Musselwhite, 'Frankenstein: The making of a monster', in Partings Welded Together: Politics arid Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel, Methuen, London. 1987, pp. 43-74. Related Works Frank Darvall, Popular Disturbances and Public Order in Regency England, Oxford University Press, London, 1934. E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1970. Malcolm I. Thomis and Peter Holt, Threats of Revolution in Britain, 1789-1848, Macmillan, London, 1977. Brian Easlea, Fathering the Unthinkable: Masculinity, Scientists and the Arms Race, Pluto Press, 1983. Marilyn Butler, Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background, 1760-1830, Oxford University Press, 1981. H. T. Dickinson, British Radicalism and the French Revolution, 1789-1815, Blackwell, Oxford, 1985. J. R. Dinwiddy, From Luddism to the First Reform Bill: Reform in England. 1810-1832. Blackwell, Oxford, 1986.
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